Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-08
LOCAL BREYITIES.

A special tarin of twelve carloads of
oranges went East yesterday.
Messrs. Strader, Branigan and Jackson
have been appointed special policemen for
| to-day's election.
| The Howard Benevolent Association will
| have contribution boxes at the various
polling places to-day.
1t is expected that the committee ar
pointed by the Sacramento Bar TO prepare
resolutions of respect to the memory of the
late Judge S. B. Mckee will make their re-
port to morrow.
The steamer Constance arrived yesterday
from Saucelito, with lumber, posts and
grape poles for the Friend & Terry Lumber
Company; also the Dover. from the upper
Sacramento, with grain.
The weather has been warm on the hill
lately. but its effect upon the snow does not
appear to be sufficient to have much effect
upon the rivers. The Sacramento is stead
lily falling, and last evening was down to IL
feet inches.
Dr. L. Berson announces by advertise
ment this morning that he has opened at
No. 70l N street, in this city, aided by COM
petent assistants, q Pasiglossic Polytechni-
con, for higher education and the study of
languages and science.
A correspondent writes that Miss L.
Laughlin, the teacher in the old Elk Grove
school district, has been discharged on ac-
count of having whipped an orphan boy
who resides with o. s. Freeman, in man
ner deemed by the Trustees inexcusable.
These arrests were made yesterday: VIM.
Grant, surrendered himself, for an assault
with a deadly weapon; Pat Brogan, Walter
Cooksley and Charley Tomlin, by officer
Woods, for misdemeanor; Mrs. DAILY,
by officer Coffey, for disturbing the peace.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was $50 and 42o,
with fresh southerly winds and clear to
fair weather. A solar halo of 800 radii
was observable between the hours of II
A. NJ. and 2P. M, with the prismatic co!ors
very indistinct.
The California and Oregon Railroad was
freed from the debris of recent slides north
of Sims Sunday evening, and the railroad
people were congratulating themselves
upon the fact, when a dispatch came an
nouncing another landslide near Castle
creek, blocking the track for several hours.
VIM. Boone, a colored man who lived in
Sacramento several years ago, but latterly
has been away, returned to the city on
Sunday, and made such threats against the
life of his wife and a colored man with
whose family she has been living for some
time, that they both made complaint at the
police office against him yesterday, but
neither swore to warrant.
r. 7. Booth. the noted temperance advo-
cate, who has just returned TO America,
after seven years work in England and
Australia, is in the city. Mr.. Booth opens
series of meetings at the Metropolitan
Theater, beginning Sunday night next. He
is reported to be the foremost temperance
orator of the world, and his success in the
cause, said to have exceeded even that of
Cough himself. would justify this repute.
Last evening it was noticed that the Re
publican ticket for the municipal election
announced Eugene j. Gregory as candi-
date for Mayor" instead of for First
Trustee" While the error might not be
a vital one, as, under the law, the intent of
the voter is the main thing to be de-
termined, there was a grand rushing
around for the attaches OF printing Office,
in order that new lot of ballots might be
struck off.
Chief Dillman returned last evening
from San Francisco to which place he and
others had been summoned as witnesses
before the United States Grand Jury
against Ernest Schliemann, the Woodland
money order operator. The action of the
jury could, of course, be only surmised,
but the defendant had little hope. 1t was
said that he had received letter from his
uncle advising him to plead guilty, as If
was almost impossible to avoid conviction.
The Natoma Company, sixteen miles east
of this city, on the Sacramento Valley
Railroad, has 1000 acres of solid vineyard
The place presents busy scene at this
=. - ka.,, lose thor
ing, etc. Every part of the vineyard looks
we'll, and the prospects for fine crop are
excellent. A force OF men are engaged in
replacing the grapevines that have been de-
stroyed in various ways through the season.
Not dead or incompetent vine is allowed
place in the vineyard.